Mergers & Acquisitions

The investment landscape was dominated by the United States and China, which together accounted for the majority of the capital raised.

The companies will combine Serve’s autonomy stack and real‑world dataset with Vayu’s AI foundation models.

To date, HistoSonics said its Edison system has treated more than 2,000 patients at over 50 leading U.S. medical centers.

J.P. Morgan found that long-term investment trends for robotics, semiconductors, aerospace, and defense are positive.

Doosan said ONExia, as a U.S.-based provider, will help it expand globally, and will bring decades of data to bolster AI capabilities.

Bondai Robotics plans to combine its AI software with farm-ng’s agbotics hardware and has named returning and new executives.

Maxvision said Aldebaran’s IP and humanoid robots will enable it to make significant strides in its strategic roadmap.

Zimmer Biomet said the Monogram acquisition will contribute to revenue growth in 2027 and boost its robotic knee adoption in the U.S.

Plus said its go-to-market strategy is centered on integration with commercial vehicle makers like TRATON GROUP, Hyundai, and IVECO.

Aldebaran made the Pepper and Nao humanoid robots, which were popular in education and service uses but struggled to make money.

With the acquisition, Circus SE said FullyAI will become the cognitive engine of the its food preparation ecosystem.

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Saronic has retained the experience workforce of Gulf Craft and expects to prototype and build medium uncrewed surface vessels.

Comau plans to acquire fellow Italian company Automha to expand into the logistics sector.

To date, Fictiv has produced over 35 million commercial and prototype components for some of the world’s most innovative products.

Hugging Face has acquired Pollen Robotics, fostering open-source robotics for research, education, and embodied AI.

Kodiak Robotics says its single-platform automated driving system, the Kodiak Driver, combines advanced AI-driven software with modular hardware.

Boumarang, which has developed hydrogen-powered aerial drones, received investment in addition to acquiring Wavedrone.

CNH has acquired the assets and intellectual property of robotics apple-picking startup Advanced Farm.

Yamaha Agriculture combines Robotics Plus’ autonomous systems with The Yield’s data analytics for specialty crop growers.

Stial has acquired STFcore and launched Stial Steven, a humanoid polishing robot with AI-driven precision and flexibility.

1X said it shares an outlook with the team at Kind Humanoid, which has applied LLMs to safe general-purpose robots.